Denali Team 2 2013 - Dispatch 6

Denali Team 2: May 12 to June 1

Guides: Andrew Yasso, Geoff Lodge, Andrew Stephen

Climbers:  Blake Penson, Daniel Emond, Carol Akerson, Dan Douthit, David Bradley, Luca Smargiasso, Kevin Harker, Michael Buttery, Tina Fiori

(We will post the audio of these dispatches on Monday.)

Andrew called in the afternoon May 17th with the following dispatch:

Summary: We are still and Camp 2. We did a "cache rescue" today as opposed to a back-carry as it is usually referred to. With white out conditions and high winds it really felt like an epic just getting our cache. tt snowed 16 - 20 inches today. We have all our goods and are sitting pretty waiting for the weather to break so we can move up. 

Geoff called at 4:49pm PST on May 18th with the following dispatch:

Summary: Calling from Camp 2 at 11,000'. After our exciting back carry yesterday we have all our food and supplies with us. We have now received between 2.5 and 3 feet of snow. We are going to wait for the snow to settle and avalanche risk to decrease before moving up. There is an Italian team that may move up tomorrow so we will be watching them pretty closely. The Sun is out and the weather is improving so we are in high spirits.